“It is exciting the first time you see your words being brought to life on the screen you’ve been watching all of your life.”

A Wright State grad’s psychological tale of torture and triumph is heading to prime time.

Angelle Haney Gullett, a former Dayton Daily News writer and editorial assistant, said cases like that of now-deceased Clevelandkidnapper Ariel Castro — who held women in bondage for years — helped inspire her to write “Her Worst Nightmare.”

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“I hope the movie connects to people and I hope that it opens the door for me to write more stories, tell more people’s truth,” Haney Gullett, now a Los Angeles resident, said. “It is exciting the first time you see your words being brought to life on the screen you’ve been watching all of your life.”

Haney Gullett, also an actress and voice artist, developed a love of the written word from her parents, Sue Kauth, now of Greenville, and Tom Johnson, now of Beavercreek.

The film tells the story of Dakota (Claire Blackwelder) following her rescue from a basement where she was abused by her kidnapper. Dakota tries to pick up the pieces of her life only to discover that she is being stalked.